Research Sites

 

 

Where Do the Children Play? is a one-hour documentary for public television that examines how restrictive patterns of sprawl, congestion, and endless suburban development across America are impacting children’s mental and physical health and development.

 

 

 

Soundscapes of Childhood – Discover the soundscapes made by students in the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Fall 2012. The project was realized in a class that studied children’s literature of the Great Lakes and explored personal and cultural geographies of that region.

Other Media

Interviewed for and featured in article New York’s Secret Doors and Hidden Rooms
New York Times, October 14, 2016

Featured in University Liggett School Perspectives Magazine
Fall 2016

Participant in “The Secret Lives of Children” Episode
Podcast
CBC’s Ideas Podcast, December 19, 2014

Michigan Public Radio News, Interview with Kate Wells on healing effects of nature-inspired art in children’s hospitals
(April 24, 2014)

Nevada Public Radio, Desert Companon, Interview with Chantal Corcoran about children and technology
(March 21, 2014)

Lecturer, “Growing Up Near the Great Lakes: ‘By the Shores of Gitche Gumee,’” Harvard/Stanford Alumni Association Cruise
(July 30-August 8, 2013)

BBC/PRI’s The World, Interview with Kavita Pillay on Finnish schools and the role of recess
(June 5, 2013)

Professor Profile: Elizabeth Goodenough
The Wire Blog, The Michigan Daily, January 2012

Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Goodenough on Child’s Play, Film: Child’s Play & The Quest
CitiTV Channel 19, May 2011

Secret Spaces of Childhood
Fall 1998